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Founded on hate. Alphabetised for your convenience.
Real aviation terms translated into plain English, then translated again into what the airline actually meant. The useful part is true. The customer care is not.
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Thirty terms. Still no refunds.
Tickets & fees
A fare for passengers who chose price over rights.
Airline language
Two airlines sharing one flight and pre-dividing your complaint.
Airport rituals
The point of no refund.
Tickets & money
Tickets & money
The identical seat, now available in several levels of regret.
Tickets & money
A financial penalty for allowing time to continue.
Tickets & money
Our favourite passenger: paid, absent and silent.
Waiting, loyalty & seating
Waiting
A seat may become available. Dignity will not.
Loyalty
Millions earned. Nothing available.
Seating
Your seat was reassigned to revenue.
Airport rituals
Airport rituals
The final place hope gets scanned.
Airport rituals
Free cardio. Final call.
Airport rituals
A caste system with a barcode.
Last calls, lost bags & lines
Airport rituals
Your name is now public property.
Airport rituals
Every bag except yours.
Airport rituals
Prepare to prepare.
Lounges, buses & impossible corridors
Airport rituals
A quieter room where the delay has upholstery.
Airport rituals
Your flight is parked in another postcode.
Airport rituals
Two flights. One optimistic hallway.
Cabin property disputes
Cabin life
Your bag has been promoted to revenue.
Cabin life
Shared space. Private panic.
Cabin life
Both neighbours included. Space sold separately.
Measured discomfort & warm disappointment
Cabin life
The distance between your knees and our margin.
Cabin life
Your comfort. Their problem.
Cabin life
Disappointment heated to service temperature.
Private cupboards, paid views & punctuality theatre
Cabin life
Your private square metre of regret.
Cabin life
The view is free. Access is not.
Operational language
The clock left. You didn’t.
Reasons, delays & administrative disappearance
Operational language
Something happened. Details are not included.
Operational language
Your time has been reassigned.
Operational language
Your flight is now a customer-service queue.
Departments of knowledge
Tickets & fees
Fares, change fees and methods of charging one passenger twelve times.
Airport rituals
Gates, bridges and the controlled movement of paying livestock.
Airline language
Phrases designed to contain responsibility without accepting it.
Why does this exist?
We hate aviation jargon almost as much as we hate passengers. Unfortunately, you keep asking what you are paying for. Every entry contains a real plain-language definition, the official FlyAndCry interpretation, common symptoms and links to related forms of passenger exploitation.
Important scholarly notice
FlyAndCrypedia is a satirical glossary, not operational guidance. Always verify real travel rules with the airport, regulator or airline actually responsible for your journey. This excludes FlyAndCry, which is responsible for nothing because it does not exist.
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